Mid Autumn Festival

14 September 2008 was the Mid Autum Festival or also called the Mooncake Festival.

Papa brought back a box of Tai Thong mooncakes ... whilst my Mummy, ai ... busy putting things in place to have 80+ boxes of mooncakes delivered to her company customers never brought any mooncakes home ...

http://www.ttrb.com.my/

The moon is supposed to be in its fullest tonite according to popular Chinese legends. Alongside with this are also the many varied stories of the Mooncake Festival:

1) The Lady Chang-Er, wife of the tyrannical archer, Hou Yi

2) The shiftless man, Wu Kang

3) The sarcrifical rabbit

4) The making of special cakes for rebellion without it being discovered a.k.a mooncakes

http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/midfallstory.htm

So, have u eaten your mooncake this year ? Here, read about the mooncake mania here

http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2008/8/23/central/1834434&sec=central

Happy Birthday Malaysia !

Malaysia turns 51 yesterday ... meaning Malaysians have celebrated 51 years of independance ...

Looking at Malaysia from my point of view, boy, Malaysia is quite an old woman already - what i mean is that she has already hit middle age ...

Apparently celebrations for this year's Merdeka is not so lavish ...

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/Frontpage/2337919/Article/index_html

http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/Frontpage/2337911/Article/index_html

Being near to the Curve, Mummy predicted that there would be a crowd coming over ... and indeed there were folks and people (both young and old) all flocking to the Curve at about 10pm ... however, Mummy packed me up to bed at around 11pm ... so i didn't get to see the fireworks (which was being displayed for about 15 minutes at the Curve) ...

Some other reading: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/8/31/merdeka/22155220&sec=Merdeka